Capcom today announced that Resident Evil 2 has shipped 4 million units globally on all platforms. According to the press release, cumulative sales of all the games in the Resident Evil series now total 90 million units since the first title debuted in 1996.
Originally released in 1998, Resident Evil 2 went on to achieve cumulative sales of 4.96 million units, making it the fourth best-selling game in the Resident Evil franchise. In the 2019 release, Capcom used its cutting-edge R&D facilities to build the game completely from the ground up for current-generation game platforms.
In addition to visual effects, including detailed, photo-realistic graphics made possible with RE ENGINE, Capcom’s proprietary development engine, the title provides players with a fresh horror experience via audio featuring Dolby Atmos 7.1.4 and real-time sound image rendering that utilizes binaural technology. As a result, Resident Evil 2 garnered critical acclaim around the globe from both the media and game players alike, propelling sales to 4 million units worldwide.
Furthermore, Capcom released free additional content titled The Ghost Survivors on February 15th in order to provide players of Resident Evil 2 with a longer, more engrossing gameplay experience.
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GTA5 100million ? LMAO Rockstar must be swimmmming in cash right now. I didn’t know that. There’s literally NO DOUBT about a GTA VI.
That’s peanuts for them, they make a lot more money selling shark cards.
GTA V was launched 5 ½ years ago… Let them some time.
“Capcom used its cutting-edge R&D facilities to build the game”
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zombies animate at 30fps when at a distance (fixed in update)> knife damage is tied to frame rate
> graphics menu displays incorrect amount of VRAM
> Fatal Application Exit – renderdevicedx11.cpp error crash
> multimedia keys and Windows key are disabled
“photo-realistic graphics made possible…”
> …if you’re blind because the graphics are far from being “photo-realistic”
> needs ReShade because the graphics as-is are washed out and dreary
Knife damage is TIED to framerate?!? Wtf is this for real?
It says so at pcgamingwiki and they’re usually reliable.
Oh my. This reminds me when NFS Rivals had their engine directly tied to the 30fps cap lmao.
NFS franchise is straight garbate since at least 12 years… Just a milk cow with no soul…
That’s true
L.A. Noire had that too.
Nope. The game is initialy locked to 30 fps. Unlocking the game doesn’t make it run twice faster, thankfully.
And Vanquish.
can i know where i can find the mod to unlock 60 fps for the animation at distance? thanks
I just read that they fixed that one issue in an update so will now edit the above comment. Also, I since found a few other issues which I’ve added to the list.
Don’t forget that the game on launch had MASSIVE stuttering issues directly caused by the games non-stop data collecting and uploading to RENET. The only way to fix it was to turn off RENET or turn off your network adapter. I don’t think they ever fixed it, but once you turn it off, it fixes the game and stays that way after you turn your ethernet back on.
It’s literally the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen in my entire gaming life. I have a GTX1080 so I don’t have the fancy 12gb of VRAM or whatever, right, but yet I could crank the graphics to max on everything and like 150% DSR, and it still ran flawlessly after turning off my ethernet adapter. Absolutely dumbfounding.
The graphics are supposed to be washed out and dreary. It’s a horror game.
You aren’t any smart, are you ? These sales are OK for this game. Because you sound like some butt–hurt M’fker who ends up posting gibberish text on each visit of DSOG.
Stop your Moronic behavior, and don’t act like a JERK as well. Enough said !!
*1995
*RE2R sold over 6 million from what I saw
*RE2 original sold over 6 milliion cumulative, as of MANY years ago. The only game in the franchise that outsold RE2 was RE6 for some god forsaken reason, and RE5, and that was as of 6 years ago. RE2 OG probably didn’t sell a lot of copies after that, but no one cares, we don’t need to get facts in the way of RE2 being the best game in the franchise. Besides once you factor in pre-owned for anything it’s impossible to know.
No one GAF about GTA5. Capcom isn’t stupid enough to think RE is going to sell 100 million from one game. The fact that GTA5 sold so many is an extreme aberration especially for such a mediocre game. The only other games to ever sell over 100 million were console pack-ins and Tetris.
Also the “caliber” of this game is low, as it sucks – it’s nothing in comparison to RE2.
They also can’t “Develop another MH with the same resources.” It’s been like 12 years since the last real MH game game out before World, and RE2 Remake had minimal production resources. People including the game director had to literally beg to get it made.
Quality? Lmao are you joking?
It takes “so many people” Today to make a game because developers are mis-managed and throwing money at problems instead of figuring them out. RE Engine was already made. It’s been around for years now and Capcom knows how to work with it and tweak it, meaning it doesn’t take as many people anymore. Not to mention a lot of the same staff from RE7 worked on RE2R.
The most complex part of making that game was the motion capture animation. The entire rest of the process is extremely old routine. One person could have made RE2R in their basement in the time it took Capcom to make RE2R and it would have been truer to the original.
Know how I know? Because they literally did.
Secondly, “no longer as impressive.” EA should hire you because you have no clue whatsoever how the gaming business works. Simply throwing money and advertisement at a problem doesn’t somehow magically increase the audience. RE Is a niche game. It has always been a niche game and will always be a niche game. MOST games are niche games. The fact that a game like GTA5 could sell 100 million (closer to 50 I’m sure after you take out the double and triple dips) is an extreme aberration – it’s not normal in any way. The only games in history that have ever “sold” so many copies were console pack-ins that you didn’t BUY, like Tetris, Super Mario Bros, etc.
The fact that a game is remade, or made, doesn’t magically create or increase an audience for it. RE2 original sold 6 million. The only reasonable number of copies an intelligent, sane person could expect RE2 remake to sell is…..shocker,…..6 million.
Even the most casual RE games possible, designed to get new fans, only sold 6 million – RE4, 5, and 6. RE7 also sold 6 million.
There literally isn’t a bigger audience for survival horror games.
I actually liked RE2 remake but man, that 60 bucks initial price was. too. much.